| agnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: hangnail |
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| bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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| billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| danaid | (noun) large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste | Synonyms: danaid butterfly |
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| doctrinaire | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
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| doornail | (noun) a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| hangnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: agnail |
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| hobnail | (noun) a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots | - |
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| lanai | (noun) a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room | - |
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| legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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| luminaire | (noun) an electrical device used to create artificial light by use of an electric lamp; all light fixtures have a fixture body and a light socket to hold the lamp and allow for its replacement | Synonyms: light fitting, light fixture |
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| maconnais | (noun) fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry | Synonyms: macon |
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| mayonnaise | (noun) egg yolks and oil and vinegar | Synonyms: mayo |
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| millionaire | (noun) a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars | - |
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| millionairess | (noun) a woman millionaire | - |
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| naiad | (noun) (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains | - |
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| (noun) submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water | Synonyms: water nymph |
| naif | (noun) a naive or inexperienced person | - |
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| nail | (noun) a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener | - |
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| (noun) horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits | - |
| (noun) a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard | - |
| nailbrush | (noun) a brush used to clean a person's fingernails | - |
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| nailer | (noun) a worker who attaches something by nailing it | - |
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| nailfile | (noun) a small flat file for shaping the nails | - |
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| nailhead | (noun) flattened boss on the end of nail opposite to the point | - |
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| (noun) something resembling the head of a nail that is used as an ornamental device | - |
| nailrod | (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, bulrush, cat's-tail, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
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| nainsook | (noun) a soft lightweight muslin used especially for babies | - |
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| naira | (noun) the basic unit of money in Nigeria | - |
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| naiveness | (noun) lack of sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: naivete, naivety |
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| naivete | (noun) lack of sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: naiveness, naivety |
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| naivety | (noun) lack of sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: naiveness, naivete |
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| polonaise | (noun) a woman's dress with a tight bodice and an overskirt drawn back to reveal a colorful underskirt | - |
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| questionnaire | (noun) a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | - |
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| reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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| seasnail | (noun) small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish | Synonyms: Liparis liparis, sea snail, snailfish |
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| (noun) any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks, tritons, moon shells, neritids | - |
| snail | (noun) freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell | - |
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| (noun) edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | Synonyms: escargot |
| snailfish | (noun) small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish | Synonyms: Liparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail |
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| snailflower | (noun) perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, Vigna caracalla |
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| thumbnail | (noun) the nail of the thumb | - |
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| toenail | (noun) the nail at the end of a toe | - |
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| treenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: trenail, trunnel |
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| trenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: treenail, trunnel |
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| unai | (noun) relatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot | Synonyms: Choloepus didactylus, two-toed sloth, unau |
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| (noun) a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot | Synonyms: Choloepus hoffmanni, two-toed sloth, unau |
| vinaigrette | (noun) oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic | Synonyms: French dressing, sauce vinaigrette |
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